Hikaru

"Are you sure you'll be all right?" Auntie asked.

Ryuto and I nodded at the same time. "We're sure," we said in unison.

Auntie smiled and kissed both of us on our foreheads. "Take care then," she said. "I'll be by after school to pick you two up, okay? Have fun!" Auntie waved as she walked away.

Ryuto and I walked out of the main office, clutching our new school schedules.

"I can't believe we only have class together," I complained. "This sucks." I held up my schedule and pointed it out to my twin: Physical education.

"It's better than none, Hikaru," Ryuto said.

I sighed. "I guess. I'll go find my class now. I have Honors World History and Geography first." I waved to my twin. "See you at lunch!"

"Okay!" Ryuto shouted back. "Save me a seat, will you?"

"If I get there first!" I shouldered my messenger bag as I walked across the large green lawn.

The school called Gakuen Academy was known across the world for its wide variety of culture. Its building held only a couple hundred students from every country of the world and the classes were very prestigious.

"Crap." I looked at my schedule and then at the large building number. They didn't match at all.

"Excuse me, but are you lost?"

I turned around to see a blonde boy standing behind me with green eyes and large bushy eyebrows. Trying not to make a face, I nodded and handed him my schedule.

"Let's see, you have history first period… Oh, honors history." He looked at me. "And you're a…?" The boy spoke with a British accent, I noticed.

"Sophomore," I said. "I just transferred here. I'm Hikaru Sohma."
"I'm Arthur Kirkland," said the boy, reaching out his hand which I shook. "I'm a junior here so I can show you around."

I smiled gratefully and thanked him.

"So you're looking for the history building which isn't that hard," Arthur told me. "It's near the library so you have easy access to it." He rambled on, talking about the buildings and pointed out from me when three boys came up to us and blocked our way to my classroom.

One of the boys looked like an albino rabbit with white hair and red eyes. The second had dark brown hair and olive green eyes. The third guy…looked like a pervert. He had blonde hair that went down to his shoulders and blue eyes with a twinkle that made me want to run away.

"Who is this, Arthur?" asked the blonde in a French accent. "A new female student…honhonhon…"

"What do you want, you frog?" Arthur demanded in an angry tone. His shout surprised me, as I thought that he was the type to always stay calm.

But the blonde didn't pay attention to him. His eyes were on me. "What's your name, mademoiselle? I am called Francis Bonefey."

"Hikaru Sohma," I said softly.

"Well, Hikaru, I don't think someone as sweet as you should be hanging out with a limey like Arthur here," said the albino in a German accent. "I'm Gilbert and this is Antonio, by the way. You should come hang out with us."

I took a step back and shook my head. "I have to go to class. I'm sorry," I said as I slipped between them. I ducked inside my classroom just as the bell rang. When I turned around, I saw that there were three other students already seated. All of them were boys—one had slick blonde hair, another with brown and a weird curl sticking out of his hair, and a third with a black bob. There was a man standing at the chalkboard, writing on it so I guessed he was the teacher. I went up to him.

"Excuse me," I said. "My name is Hikaru Sohma."

The teacher peered at me through his glasses. "Oh, yes. You must be the new student. I'm Mr. Henry. Hikaru, you can sit by…" He looked back at the seats. "You can sit by Ludwig. I suppose you already have all your supplies, hmm?"

I nodded.

"I guess we'll just have to see where you are today." He stopped writing on the board. "Go ahead and take your seat."

I sat down next to the blonde and shifted uncomfortably after taking a peek at my neighbor. The blonde, Ludwig, looked intimidating. He had the posture I've seen on soldiers—like he wasn't the one to laugh out loud or slouch in his seat. He had light blue eyes that stared ahead without a sign of emotion in them.

Other students had started entering through the door and I noticed that all of them were boys. Suddenly I was wishing for more classes with my brother.

"Everyone, today we have a new student," said Mr. Henry as the rest of the students settled in their seats. Several of my classmates turned to look at me and their stares made me shrink back into my seat. "Her name is Hikaru Sohma. She just transferred here today so please make her feel welcome."

As far as feeling welcome gets in a classroom full of boys goes, I thought, pulling out a notebook and a pencil from my bag as Mr. Henry started talking.

"Today we'll be starting a project about the world's history so I'll be putting each of you into groups of four. In your groups, you'll be researching different eras in history and at the end of your research, you and your group will present it to the class." Mr. Henry then started assigning the groups, putting me into a group with Ludwig Beilschmidt, Kiku Honda, and Feliciano Vargas.

The first thing after he released us, I heard a cry above all the noise in the room: "Did you hear that, Ludwig! We're in the same group!"

The boy with the weird curl pounced on Ludwig, almost choking him.

"Get off me, you dummkopf!" Ludwig shouted. He had the voice of a soldier, too: harsh and irritated.

"Don't mind them, Sohma-san," said a voice. I looked up to see the boy with the black bob. He had dark brown eyes and instantly, I knew he was Japanese—like me. "I am Kiku Honda. We will be working together from now on so please feel free to ask questions."

I felt the weight of a body push me down. "Ve! She's so cute!" The boy with the weird curl voice sounded way too happy. "Don't you think so, Ludwig!" The boy started crushing me into the table.

"Feliciano, please, you're hurting her!" Kiku pleaded.

"I'm sorry," Feliciano apologized as I caught my breath.

I turned my head around to face him. "No it's ok—" I stopped as I felt a soft peck on my cheek. "Ah…"

"Feliciano!" Ludwig yelled.

"Ah, I'm sorry!" Feliciano cried, falling on the floor.

"No, it's all right! I don't mind! You just surprised me!" I shouted. I pulled him to his feet and dusted him off. "Now, should we get started on this project?" I asked, picking up a card Mr. Henry passed out during the chaos.

"What are we doing?" Ludwig asked.

I held up the card so the boys could see. "The Roman Empire," I said. "This will be easy."

Ludwig nodded and started writing in my notebook. He wrote important dates as I talked about it with Feliciano and Kiku. As we worked together, I found Ludwig less intimidating. He was more protective over Feliciano like an older brother while Feliciano seemed to look up to him.

"Nii-san," I said to Kiku as Ludwig was trying to get Feliciano out from under a table. "Nii-san, are those two brothers?"

Kiku looked at Ludwig and Feliciano and shook his head. "Ludwig and Feliciano are only friends, best friends if you want. They both have older brothers though."

I watched as Ludwig bonked Feliciano on the head, calling him a dummkopf. "I thought so."

"Hey, you two!" Ludwig called. "You're going to be late to class!"

Not realizing the bell rang, I packed up my bag and followed the boys outside.

"So, Hikaru, where are you from?" Feliciano asked, walking backwards.

"Japan," I said. "Um, you should really watch where you're going."

Feliciano bumped into Ludwig, who turned his head to glare at him but Ludwig's light blue eyes met mine and quickly, I turned away from him with a red face.

I gotta go to my next class," I stammered. "I guess I'll see you guys around. Bye!" I took off in the opposite direction, feeling like I was on fire.

A Note from your Author:

Soo I finally figured out how to edit my story *laughs* I'm sorry. I had to edit this and take out Ryuto's part because it was supposed to be the second chapter. I finally figured out how to so now Chapter One is shortened down to Hikaru's point of view.